Given name & surname
Samba
Samba is a masculine given name from Portuguese. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Samba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 167
- 167 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −64%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 533 as a first name in 2020; 522 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Samba
- Samba SowMalian association football playerborn 1989
- Samba DiakitéMalian and French footballerborn 1989
- Samba DialloSenegalese footballerborn 2003
- Samba GadjigoSenegalese filmmakerborn 1954
- Samba SchutteDutch-Mauritanian actor and cabaret artistborn 1983
- Samba CamaraFrench association football playerborn 1992
- Samba DiawaraMalian-French football manager (born 1978)
- Samba Lélé DibaSenegalese footballer (born 2003)
- Samba YongaZambian journalist and media consultantborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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